E-book viewer: Add an option to allow only a single book to be viewed at a time. Trying to view a second book will cause it to replace the currently viewed book.
Get Books: Update plugins for various Polish language book stores to handle changes to the website
Amazon metadata download: Handle a change in the amazon website that prevented review metadata from being downloaded
Better algorithm for guessing the 'external' network interface that is displayed to the user
Tag Mapper: Do not allow the user to create rules with invalid regular expressions
E-book viewer: Disallow hyphenation in documents that use mathematical typesetting as the hyphenation breaks that typesetting
E-book viewer: Fix some non-ASCII characters not display in embedded MathML.
MOBI Output: Try to autofix corrupted PNG images in the input document.
Nook Glowlight Plus: Send files by default to the NOOK/My Files folder.
E-book viewer: Fix failure to view comic files that contain non-ASCII characters int heir internal filenames.
Release: 2.48 [01 Jan, 2016]
New Features
Driver for Energy Ereader Screenlight.
Closes tickets: 1529108
DOCX Input: Add option to have superscripts/subscripts converted so that they do not affect the line height of the line containing them.
Closes tickets: 1528055
New option to hide empty categories in Tag Browser (Preferences->Look & Feel->Tag Browser)
Bug Fixes
Image compression: Fix spurious zero byte .bak files being created when compressing png images inside epub files
Image compression: Fix bug that could cause zero byte images files/or file in use errors when compressing images
Fix some icons not being themeable
Closes tickets: 1529501
E-book viewer: When using heuristics to detect footnote links check for vertical-align set to top and bottom as well as sub and super
Book details panel: Display data in right-to-left format when the calibre interface language is set to a right-to-left language such as Hebrew or Arabic
Improved news sources
Rzeczpospolita
New York Times Book Review
der Standard
More Intelligent Life
Reader's Digest
Financial Times
New Scientist
Release: 2.47 [21 Dec, 2015]
New Features
A new tool to easily export and import all calibre data -- books, settings and plugins
Right click the calibre icon in the main calibre toolbar and choose "Export/import all calibre data" to run this tool. It is useful if you want to move to a new computer or duplicate your calibre setup on a second computer, with minimal effort. This tool is very new, so if you run into problems, please report bugs. You can always use the old manual method of copying library folders as a fallback.
Get Books: Add plugins for Amazon Australia and Amazon India. Also restore the Amazon EU plugins.
Closes tickets: 1526089
Bug Fixes
PDF Input: Fix conversion of PDF documents that contain ASCII control codes in their outlines not working.
Closes tickets: 1527697
Edit book: Fix image compression utilities opening a new console per invocation on windows
Image compression: If the compression tools return a zero byte image ignore it and use the original image
Fix a regression that caused book titles in the Book Details panel to become clickable
Improved news sources
Fox News
Le Devoir
Le Monde diplomatique.fr
Release: 2.46 [11 Dec, 2015]
New Features
PDF Input: Add support for PDF outlines (bookmarks), if present, they are used as the metadata Table of Contents.
Closes tickets: 1524522
Book polishing: Add tool to losslessly compress images in the book in order to reduce its filesize, without affecting image quality
Edit Book: Add a new tool to compress images in the book losslessly, accessed from the Tools menu
Kobo driver: add support for new Kobo firmware
Closes tickets: 1524742
Bulk metadata edit dialog: Allow entering fractional numbers into the series number start with control.
Closes tickets: 1523253
Speed up moving libraries by using hardlinks instead of file copies when moving to a location on the same filesystem
Get Books: Disable the Amazon EU stores, at Amazon's request
Bug Fixes
Fix moving libraries via calibre leaving behind a copy of the metadata_db_prefs_backup.json file in the original library folder
MOBI Input: Warn about corrupted trailing data entries, instead of aborting. Getting some, even partially corrupted text is better than no text.
Closes tickets: 1521830
Book details: Fix single value custom text column not clickable.
Closes tickets: 1521004
Saving to disk: Fix custom date column being rendered in GMT instead of the local time zone when used in a save to disk template.
Closes tickets: 1520895
Improved news sources
New York Review of Books
Caravan Magazine
heise
Release: 2.45 [27 Nov, 2015]
New Features
Cover browser: Allow customizing the text that appears under the covers with a template in Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover browser
When sending books without a cover to the device, generate a cover with book metadata instead of using the blank book icon
Preferenes->Add your own columns: Show more information about existing columns
Bug Fixes
PDF Output: Handle input documents with fonts that do not have either postscript or full name information.
Closes tickets: 1518678
DOCX Input: Handle numbering styles that use non-decimal number formats and custom templates.
Closes tickets: 1519962
Allow restoring of corrupted library to work even if the metadata.db file is missing from the library folder
Closes tickets: 1519855
Bulk metadata dialog: Fix renaming a custom series via search and replace causing the series index to be reset to 1.
Closes tickets: 1519599
Bulk metadata dialog: Fix search and replace not working for text like custom columns if the column contains only a single value.
Closes tickets: 1516890
Content server: Fix next and previous links not working in the mobile view when using a search query that includes url unsafe characters.
Closes tickets: 1519606
Update Amazon metadata download plugin to handle amazon.com website change that was preventing any metadata from being downloaded
Edit Book: Fix error when trying to add words to user dictionary for a book with a language that has no dictionary available.
Closes tickets: 1517928
Tag browser: Fix various bugs in how grouped search terms are displayed. Also fix counts and average rating for items in user categories
When using copy to library also create missing composite columns in the destination library.
Closes tickets: 1516880
Improved news sources
The Guardian and The Observer
Release: 2.44.1 [15 Nov, 2015]
Bug Fixes
Update the version of libpng bundled with calibre to fix a security vulnerability in libpng
See
https://web.nvd.nist.g...=CVE-2015-8126 for details on the vulnerability
Release: 2.44 [13 Nov, 2015]
New Features
Allow setting the cover for a book from one of the book's formats by right clicking on the format in the Book details panel.
Closes tickets: 1515411
Allow drag and drop of all file types onto the book details panel and the format list in the edit metadata dialog.
Closes tickets: 1515407
Edit Book: When inserting an image into the current document, add a button to paste the image from the clipboard
Edit Book: Change the suggested prefix for bulk renaming of files depending on the type of files being renamed.
Closes tickets: 1514468
On Linux, use the system tray icon from the system theme, if available
Bug Fixes
Fix for error when connecting to some Android phones/tablets that have an SD card on OS X and Linux
Linux build: Fix problem with pointing hand mouse cursor not using the system theme on some Linux systems
Fix the device view state not being saved when a connected device is ejected/disconnected
Edit Book: Fix saving fails if the original file is deleted during editing session
Closes tickets: 1513849
E-book viewer: When doing a search do not match text in comments, attributes and inappropriate tags, such as <script> and